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Show II. S, III Hill IN RUSH TO" Philadelphia Is to ' Get $18,000,000, While Gun Plants Get Huge Sums for Improving By United Preea.' WASHINGTON, June 2. De-taila De-taila of the navy 'a $80,000,-000 $80,000,-000 improvement, announced tonight, to-night, provide for navy yard extension, ex-tension, .new training atationa, anbmartno bases and atoreae w a roll ro-ll ou are for auppllea and ammunition. Drydocka. capable of aceommodai- trig the largeei veeseis; nvw s Inoludlng erection of the largest gun shop la the world, are Included. At, the New Tork navy yard Is.OoS.-eft Is.OoS.-eft lo being expended aa new. woo-a for building ahipa. new storage warehouses ware-houses and doubling the capacity of machine shops. J At the League Island yards. In Philadelphia, new drydocka. one thousand thou-sand feet long, are being built, aa 1 wall as new waya for shipbuilding, new structural and machine shops and tho largeat foundry on the Atlantic Atlan-tic coast. The sum of lls.OOO.OOO will be apent at Philadelphia alone. At the Norfolk navy yards another one thousand foot drydock will be built. New structural and machine shops: waterfront Improvements, including in-cluding a barracka and auxiliary buildings will require I2o.0oe.ooe. At Washington n.000,000 will bo expended ex-pended in expansion of tha naval gun factory. A new gun shop win coat S2.aoo.ao. At tha Mare Island (California) yard, a ramp for 1000 men la being erected. At Pugrt Bound (Washington). $,-000.000 $,-000.000 la being spsnt to provide fa-cllitlea fa-cllitlea to build crulaera and auxiliary auxili-ary typea of vessels. The Urest Lakes training station Ifcnioavoi. is neinir epan,aea 10 accommodate ac-commodate ao.OVO men. . A new aviation stmt ion haa been con - i struct ed at Heneaoola. Kla. A new camp for the marine corps ' at Fort Royal. H. fH aconinmodatlnc 000 men, has been completed: alaW the barracks at 4'harleeton, fl. C, tor tbe as ma number of men. The new camp and training- station at Quantlco, Vs., with accommodations accommoda-tions for lv.OOv marines, la well under way. t - Improvements have been made In tiie navy yards at Portemouth, N. H.. Newport. New-port. R. IM Boston, Mass., and New Orleans. Or-leans. Work la proirreairine; In the big haae at Pearl harbor. Hawaii, where a 10O-foot 10O-foot drydock la bulldina-. Hundreds of maazlne storehouses, barracka, hospital pavilions and roedl-nntlntierpareJ U. S. SPENDS - (Continued from pegs 1.) eal storage houses have been erected. or are .under construction. Rear Admiral F. R. Harris, ohlsf of ths bureau of yards and docka, is directing di-recting the work, assisting by a corps of civil engineers and civilian designers. design-ers. Inspectors snd expert a. Admiral Harrla said today that the program , amounts lo the practical rebuilding of msny navy yarda I |